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Programming Language Timeline

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  • Plankalkul

    Konrad, Zuse; designed for engineering processes "Plan Calculus"
  • Fortran

    John Backus; suited to numeric computation and scientifiv computing, Formula Translating System.
  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz; intended to be an improved version of FORTRAN.
  • Lisp

    Russel, Hart, and Levin; can manipulate source code as a data structure. "List Processing"
  • COBOL

    Grace Hopper; produc ed for business use. Common- Business- oriented language.
  • RPG

    IBM developed for business applications. Report Program Generator.
  • BASIC

    John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz; produced for students in fields other than science and math. Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic instruction Code.
  • LOGO

    Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert; educational programming language that taught concepts of programming by producing line graphics.
  • B

    Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie; designed for non-numeric, recursive, machine independent application. The name is thought of to be a contraction of BCPL, a different language.
  • PASCAL

    Niklaus Wirth; small/efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices. Named after Blaise Pascal.
  • C

    Dennis Ritchie; general, all-purpose programming language that allows users to create instructions for a computer to follow.
  • ML

    Robin Milner; concieved to develop proof tactics in the LCF throrem prover. "Meta Language"
  • SQL

    Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce; designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. "Structured Query Language"
  • ADA

    Charles Babbage; large-scale programming for the US Secretary of Defense.
  • C++

    Bjarne Strousrup, Generic program featuring low level memory manipulation.
  • Python

    Guido van Rossum; emphasizes code readability and allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
  • Visual Basic

    Microsoft allows programmers to create an application using components provided by the Visual Basic program.
  • Delphi

    Borland; Native code compiler that contains tools to make programming for Windows easy.
  • Java

    James Gosling/ Sun Microsystems; Allows a code that runs on one platform to run on another without being recompiled. Named Java from Java coffee, because it is consumed in large quantities.
  • Javascript

    Brendan Eich; used by web browsers and allows the user and client-side scripts to interact.
  • PHP

    Rasmus Lerdorf; designed for web development, "Hypertext Preprocessor"